Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 79
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Cronin
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that airplane, and we did go by our treaty and leave
those poor girls back there because we said we would.
And I think this is important. The law of contracts
must stand, I guess, or a country would go down, but
I think it was an indictment against us that we left
those people there.
I'll tell you something that will be interesting
for your class. In the barracks next to us, there was
a young man who was born in Budapest. He went to school
in the United States and could speak Russian and German
and Hungarian and English and French. When the Russians
came in, no one could speak their language. And this
colonel got him up there and made him a "light" colonel.
He told the Russian general he was a lieutenant colonel
and would act as his liaison. They went across town the
next day, and he came in to see us that night, or else
we went over to see him to see how it went, and he was
sick. He wasn't throwing up, but he was about ready to
throw up. They went into an underground camp with soup--
and he did this with the Russians--and they had different
rooms, and he said that when they went into this one
room, there was old men and women that were just skin
and bones living in there, and some of them hadn't seen
daylight in a couple of years. And he told us that they
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Cronin, Eugene R. Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972, book, February 1, 1972; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529237/m1/81/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.